TransFair Bratilslava 14-16 October 2004

EUCEBS

TRANSFAIR Bratislava – 14-15 October 2004

A PATHWAY TO THE EUROPEAN MARKETOF BASIC SKILLS

ABOUT EUCEBS

EUCEBS = EUropean CErtificate of Basic Skills

Partners: The University of Edinburgh, UK (promotor) Andragoski centre Slovenije, Slovenia Centre Populaire d’Enseignement, Marseille, France Consorzio Universitario della Provincia di Ragusa, Italy CEJAC – Barcelona, Spain Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Kreisverband Bremen, Germany Kerry Education Service, Ireland University of Craiova, Faculty of Economic Science Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania European Trade Union – Bruxelles, Belgium The UK Basic Skills Agency


Project Rationale

To develop multi-lingually, for a European market, six-part, competence-based certification that will “make visible” to employers what those who gain the certification can do. The standard required of candidates for certification will be the same in each European country. The six parts, or domains, of the certification are Communication, Numeracy, ICT, Learning to Learn, Interpersonal Skills and Citizenship.


Specific Aims

To work as a partnership team to develop and make available, for pilot groups of trainees, a European-standard

qualification in Basic Skills that can be attained in an on- line learning environment; To make available, to the trainers who will teach and support

these trainees, training in the use of the EUCEBS website To develop a Qualified EUCEBS Assessor award specific to 1. and

2. To contribute to the systematic development that is taking place,

under the social partners’, the EC’s and CEDEFOP’s aegis, of the means for and portability of pan-European skills certification.


Target Audience

The project reached its target audience through contacts with The Local Agency of Workforce Occupation and through mass media publicity.

Adults with no formal qualifications, early schools leavers, immigrants from non-European countries, gypsy travellers, prisoners, those not yet equipped for the information society, and those wishing to apply for jobs in a different European country from their own; Training and learning centres, social work services, government

agencies, and the social partners.


Addressed Needs

The need to improve literacy and other basic skills in the EU population

The need to achieve greater social inclusion/citizen participation The need to develop the potential of e-learning envisaged by the

Europe initiative (2000) of the ECDG. For the Information Society which aims at “overcoming the barriers, which are still holding back the uptake of digital technologies” by “creating a digitally literate and entrepreneurial Europe” and “ensuring a socially inclusive information society”

The need to promote greater mobility of the EU workforce The need to reach ethnic and other minority groups The need for transparency of qualification


Exploitation and Dissemination

The EUCEBS website (www.eucebs.org), Become a member of the CEDEFOP TRANSPARENCY and NON-FORMAL

AND INFORMAL LEARNING Virtual Communities Engaged in dialogue with members of the European Commission responsible for Transparency and Non-formal and Informal Learning International conferences: - a paper on EUCEBS at the French Socrates-Leonardo National

Agency's conference on Transparency, Bordeaux, March 2004; - a presentation of the EUCEBS ePortfolio prototype at the E- PORTFOLIO 2004 international conference in La Rochelle at the

end of this month. Entered EUCEBS for the 2nd Grundtvig Adult Education Award to be given

out by the European Association for Adult Education


Carried out, International Level


In Romania: - contacts with the Ministry of Education which have expressed their disponibility for certificate accreditation in the field of education and advised on future steps;- contacts with the Local Agency for Vocational Training of Adults, the National Agency of Workforce Occupation, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection

Partner’s web sites:

- Romanian partner: www.svedu.ro/en/eucebs (English version) and www.svedu.ro/eucebs (Romanian version)

- Slovenian partner: siae.acs.si/projects/o29/

- Ragusa University,www.unirg.it/Attivita/progetto%20eucebs.htm


Carried out, National Level


Presentation of a paper on EUCEBS in Florence in January, at a conference put on by Regione Toscana entitled

"Focus on Competencies";

participations in nartional/international conferences

contacts with massmedia, local National Agency of Workforce Occupation and the Ministry of Education in all

participants’s countries.


Planned

Present Results

EUCEBS web site (www.eucebs.org)

EUCEBS ePortfolio

Pilot the certificate in the partner’s countries in own languages

EUCEBS Evidence of Competencies :

EUCEBS tests are being written at this moment in all partner countries.

EUCEBS Certificate in Romania


EUCEBS web site

Available in seven languages

Information on EUCEBS

Access to the e-portfolio system

Details of the certificates and competencies

Used for dissemination of EUCEBS work

Adheres to disability standards where possible


Present Results

Language selection

W3C compliant

About EUCEBS

Links to information for various interested persons

Menu options

EUCEBS ePortfolio

Student centred learning

Accreditation of prior learning

e-portfolio is being used as an alternative alongside traditional

testing

Student/tutor management system

Reflection potential – reflective diary


Present Results

Personal repository

Process of submitting coursework

EUCEBS Certificate in Romania


Present Results

Future Results and Plans

On-line accreditation will be available in all domains Accreditation of Certificate at the European level and in each

partner country of the project Certificate Interoperable with the Europass documentation Registration of adult training centres with EUCEBS with a consequent exponential building up of opportunities for trainee to acquire the Certificate Provision of governmental financial grants to training centres for

trainees to attain the Certificate Training provision for people most at a disadvantage in the labour market


Interaction with the Europass documents

EUCEBS has a project-specific ePortfolio allowing artefacts to be lodged in evidence of each competence in each domain. This portfolio will be interoperable with the Europass documentation that are being worked on in order to become operational and available in 2005. We are thinking and hoping for our EUCEBS candidates who passed all the competencies in a EUCEBS domain to fill in electronically the European Certificate Supplement Document as part of the Europass documentation. In this way our project answers the demands of the European Parliament for an improved transparency of qualifications and competencies that will facilitate mobility throughout Europe, therefore contributing to the development of quality education and training.



Added Values

The EUCEBS Slovenian partner, the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE), are leading EUCEBS in this aspect, as they are overall responsible for our Qualified EUCEBS Assessor award. This award, like our other certification, will sit within an own EUCEBS verification framework, which we are developing trans-nationally to be pan-European, under our own brand name in line with the recommendations to Training 2010 of the EC Expert Group on Non-Formal and Informal Learning. We are seeking the endorsement of the qualifications authorities (the Ministry of Education) in the EUCEBS partner countries and, in sofar as possible, transparency with their services.



Possible Barriers

• Difficulty of agreeing and setting one level, within the project as a whole, at which basic-skills competences must be

demonstrated and tested.

• Government monopoly, in some countries, on what may be validated.

• Consequent uncertainty of local and regional funding support for training centres offering the EUCEBS programme.

• Suspicion, in some countries, of innovative methods.

• Suspicion of university validation of basic-skills qualifications.

• Difficulty of integrating Education and Social Work professionalisms.


For EUCEBS’ Success

EUCEBS Plans


for sustaining the project resultsafter the end of the project

EUCEBS FoundationHeadquarters of our not-

for-profit company(location ?)

Validationprocedures

Continuing R&D(new LdV project?

New partners?)

National Testing Centres (in contact with EUROPASS)(The initial testing centres are the current partner agencies)

UKSiRoIrlIFrEsDe

LearningCentres, SME’s(De)

LearningCentres, SME’s(Es)

LearningCentres, SME’s(Fr)

ETC…


Thank YouEcaterina Paun

[email protected]

TransFair Bratilslava 14-16 October 2004

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